The Harry Potter saga continues
The play which will be published as a book is all about Harry's youngest son, Albus Severus.
Nine years after what fans thought was the last of the Harry Potter book series was published, JK Rowling announced an eighth edition of the tale.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a stage play Rowling has been working on is set to be released on 31 July as a book. The play which will be held in London was sold out almost instantly when tickets went on sale last year October.
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Fittingly, Rowling is releasing the book to coincide with Harry’s birthday and if you’re a real Potter geek, it is a reference to the first movie where Harry celebrates his 11th birthday just after midnight by drawing a picture of a cake in dirt and blowing the make-believe candles.
The Cursed Child parts 1 and 2 will be published by Little, Brown in the United Kingdom, Scholastic in the United States, and by Hachette in Australia. According to David Shelly, CEO of Little, Brown said the descision taken to have the play published in book format was as a result of massive public demand.
The book will be set 19 years after the end of the final novel. According to a synopsis published on Pottermore, Rowlings’s online encyclopaedia for the Potter universe, Harry in the latest edition is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father of three school-age children. The play will focus on Harry’s youngest son, Albus Severus.
While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places,” the Pottermore synopsis indicated.
Bloomsbury, the UK publisher of the seven Potter books have plans to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first novel in 2017 with four editions of the book representing one of each house in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
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